Robb Hill
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Robb Hill
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Dada, Dog Lover, Gold Prospector, Mycologist, Pyrotechnician, Machinist, Tinkerer, Game Show Lover, Ham Radio Operator, Boomerang Maker, Actor

@US_OGA The “U.S. Oil & Gas Association” weighing in with “as a fifth-generation Utahn…” is extremely funny. Nothing says rigorous institutional analysis like an entire fossil-fuel trade association suddenly becoming one guy’s pioneer diary.

Like tens of thousands of other rural families through out the West, my family has been dry farming and running cows out here for 175 years. In 1992 I left the farm and went to DC instead where I have worked on western water policy ever since. 1992 was the same year the climate change religion was officially established And I will say from 30 years of rigorous institutional analysis that DC policy experts and NGOs know squat compared to western farmer and ranchers. It's one thing to bang out charts and graphs on a MacBook. It's another to decide when the best time to bring the cows in and what to plant next year based on how the range looks and what was decided at the irrigation company meeting last Tuesday. Bottom line - a 5th generation farmer and rancher will know far more about drought cycles than any candy-assed climate keyboard warrior ever will. We have solid rigorous institutional analysis because we live it every year.





We live in a volatile world, which sometimes feels hopeless, but I'd like to remind us of certain human qualities that bring us back to hope and allow us to imagine a more harmonious world, in which we can all thrive. This sense of hope comes from an unlikely source: Mathematics. Let me explain...








BREAKING: Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100 billion for a new fund that would buy manufacturing companies and use AI to automate them, per WSJ.

























